Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-08-26

Railroad, from Chicago, due here
at 6:2O this morning, left the track
at the "Y," within the city limits,
and made perhaps the most COM
plete wreck ever seen here.
A FEARFUL RATE.
At fearful rate the train turned
into the "Y," when the rear cars
left the track and cut the three
story brick signal tower on the side
of the track from It's foundation as
clear as if done by a razor. The
engine ploughed into the embank-
ment, turned over, and the engineer,
Hamilton BrOseus, was scalded to
death, dying in great pain two
hours afterwards. lie never spoke.
The fireman, o. II. Smith, jumped
from the engine, and had his legs
broken. Will Baxter, the operator
employed IN the tower, saw the
train and saved himself by jumping
out of the window and catching in
a tree near by. Joe Healey, a boy,
living on First street and employed
in the tower, was seriously hurt.
LIST OF THE INJURED.
The following is list of the in
iured: Charles Knoch, Cincinnati,
badly injured in the back; Mrs.
Charles Koch, Cincinnati, injured
in the back; Frank Donaver, st.
Louis, shoulder dislocated; J. II.
Smith, fireman, Cincinnati, both
legs broken; William Buck, Gin
cinnati, head cut badly; Mrs. Mary
Buck, Cincinnati, shocked Ed.
Lechemeyer, Cincinnati, slightly
injured; Joe Healy, Washington,
seriously injured; VIII Baxter, tel
egraph operator, Washington, pain
fully injured about the head: Car
rol Cook, Washington, slightly
bruised Albert Thomas, 426 Elev-
enth street, southwest, Washing
ton, employed in the express car,
collar bone and left shoulder injur.
ed, severe scald wounds, and left
eye probably destroyed; A. j.
Fuchs, Cincinnati, bruised Francis
| j. Tuck, Cincinnati, cut in right
knee and badly bruised.
THE AIR BRAKES REFUSED TO
WORK.
1t appears, from all the evidence
obtained, that when two miles ont
from the city the air brakes refns'
ed to work, and the train came
laundering into the city, the engln-
eer blowing the distress whistle for
down brakes at every jump, and
the bell ringing with alarming ra-
pidity and violence. Failing to
stop the tram, the engineer crawled
out on top of his engine and tried
to open the steam box, and thus
gave his life in his efforts to save
the lives of the passengers. Bro
seus, who was the hero of the oc'
casion, was unmarried about for
tv.five years old, and lived in Bal.
timOre.
INCIDENTS OF THE WRECK.
One woman, rescued by Chief
Engineer Paris, found when she
was taken to a drug store that her
dress pocket, containing her money
and yaluables, was cut off. Some
of the firemen searched the wreck
and found the pocket with its con-
tents safe. 1t had been cut of as
neatly and cleanly as if the opera
T ton had been performed with a
pair of scissors.
When the men began to clear
away the wreck, there was a man
in the debris very much excited,
who would not leave, but showed
fight. He dug desperately at the
, broken timbers and heaps of bricks.
When he was ordered away by a
policeman, he turned savagely and
said: "If you don't leave me alone
- Pll knock HI out of you. My son
+ is in there" He was let alone, and
= continued his desperate struggle
until he had uncovered the bruised
and battered form of his SOD.
Q While the wreckers we're at work,
- one of the cars came near falling
on about thirty persons, and was
Q only prevented from going over by
!. one of the men, who checked it with
;. a crOwbar.
After the crash, man with his
? head cut, who seemed to be IN
dazed dondition, was standing Oh
top of the car. He was unable tC
> get down until one Of the GROVE
: cut a board from a car and made
+, a skid of it. His name could no
!, be ascertained.
Shortly after the accident occur
> red a wrecKing train was sent herr
!. from Baltimore, and scores OF mel
we're put at work removing thu
debris, and were assisted by
number of men from Brooks Sta
ton, who are laying the double
J. track. Wagon loads of frelgh
+ and baggage were recovered iron
IS the mass of ruins and taken to tn
. depot.